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> Be honest with your users and they will respect you, they will buy from you, and they will recommend you to their friends and family. The golden rule for any

• ramijames 11y ago
  You would think so, but unfortunately it's really just not that common in the business world.
  • TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
    It's not that common because you can make a lot of easy money by being dishonest. I can think of a good few "businesses" that made millions by stiffing their customers in dark pattern ways. For example - you can bury the fact that a one-off payment is really a monthly subscription in the legal T&Cs. There are online forums devoted to helping dishonest people do this - often by marketing some craptastic info-product, and then creating a sales funnel that tries to find the most gullible customers and upsells further subscriptions and services to them. Unfortunately dishonesty, greed, and customer exploitation are capitalist virtues - or at least considered more than excusable if there's profit to be made. It's not an individual problem so much as a question of collective ethics. So don't expect dark patterns to disappear because they're immoral: some people are just fine with that.